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st: AW: RE: change directory from list


From   "Hanno Scholtz" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: AW: RE: change directory from list
Date   Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:37:15 +0100

It does. Thanks a lot!

Hanno

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Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Nick Cox
Gesendet: Montag, 21. Februar 2011 21:30
An: '[email protected]'
Betreff: st: RE: change directory from list

I think the issue remains the need to use " " around strings with embedded
spaces, rather than any lack of support for scalars. 

Try 

    cd "`=mypath'"

-- as when the scalar is evaluated the spaces are now unprotected. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Hanno Scholtz

I want to have a do-file performed in a number of directories, but it turns
out that the change directory command cd does not accept string scalars. 
Of course, 
  
    cd "c:\my data\stata"

works, but

    scalar mypath="c:\my data\stata"
    cd `=mypath'

does not. Does anyone know how to solve this? 


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